CERN Headquarters, Geneva, Friday 14 July 2017 – SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, yesterday signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement establishes a framework for collaborative projects … Read more

The Ministries of Ghana and South Africa announced the combination of ‘first light’ science observations which confirm the successful conversion of a Ghanaian communications antenna from a redundant telecoms instrument into a functioning Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. … Read more

Rotterdam, Monday 12 June 2017 – The 2017 SKA Engineering Meeting kicked off today in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Some 315 engineers have travelled from 17 countries to attend, making it the largest SKA Engineering Meeting ever held. The meeting is organised … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, UK, Thursday 25 May 2017 – It is with great sadness that the SKA Organisation acknowledges the passing of Prof. Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, Chairman of the SKA Board of Directors in Madrid last night, Wednesday 24 May 2017, at the age of … Read more

Tuesday 23 May 2017, Sydney – The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ from space after less than four days of searching, indicating the full potential of the precursor telescope and the future SKA. … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Monday 22 May 2017 – The South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, visited the SKA Global Headquarters at Jodrell Bank last Thursday to be briefed on the current state of the international Square Kilometre Array … Read more

Cape Town, Friday 19 May 2017 – The South African SKA precursor telescope MeerKAT has just released its recent AR1.5 (Array Release 1.5) results, images achieved by using various configurations of the 32 antennas currently operational in the Karoo. The Minister of … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK, Friday 28 April – A special ceremony marking the beginning of construction of the Square Kilometre Array Global Headquarters (SKA GHQ) took place today, Friday 28 April to mark the official start of building … Read more